But the governor answered them, *Which of the two do you want me to release to you?* They said, *Bar-Abba!*
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, *Whom do you want me to release to you? Bar-Abba, or Yeshua, who is called Messiah?*
Now the chief Kohanim and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, and destroy Yeshua.
Pilate said to them, *What then shall I do to Yeshua, who is called Messiah?* They all said to him, *Let him be crucified!*
*But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
Pilate called together the chief Kohanim and the rulers and the people,